Generation, curation, and presentation of media collections

ABSTRACT

Systems and methods are provided for receiving input increasing a default predetermined window of time that the new media collection is accessible and activating the new media collection for the increased predetermined window of time and a geographic boundary size for where media content originates. The systems and methods further cause a plurality of content messages comprising media content originating in the geographical boundary size to be included in the new media collection and displayed in response to a request from a computing device to view the new media collection based on determining the request occurs within the increased predetermined window of time that the new media collection is accessible.

PRIORITY

This application is a continuation of and claims the benefit of priorityof U.S. patent application Ser. No. 17/517,888, filed Nov. 3, 2021,which application is a continuation of and claims the benefit ofpriority of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 17/034,663, filed on Sep.28, 2020, issued on Dec. 7, 2021 as U.S. Pat. No. 11,197,123, whichapplication is a continuation of and claims the benefit of priority ofU.S. patent application Ser. No. 16/293,300, filed on Mar. 5, 2019,issued Nov. 10, 2020 as U.S. Pat. No. 10,834,525, which application is acontinuation of and claims the benefit of priority of U.S. patentapplication Ser. No. 15/054,869, filed on Feb. 26, 2016, issued on May7, 2019 as U.S. Pat. No. 10,285,001, all of which are herebyincorporated by reference herein in their entireties.

BACKGROUND

In the modern Internet era, many news sources have fragmented, but coreaspects of news gathering and presentation often remain associated withprofessional journalists gathering and sharing information in a way thatis tied to an individual identity. While such practices have been ableto support some news structures with valuable analysis, the process forgenerating stories where select professionals filter information andgenerate stories is time consuming and introduces significant delaybetween an event occurring and presentation of information to a newsconsumer.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

Various ones of the appended drawings merely illustrate exampleembodiments of the present disclosure and should not be considered aslimiting its scope.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating a networked system, according tosome example embodiments.

FIG. 2A is an example user interface for viewing a list of mediacollections, according to some example embodiments.

FIG. 2B is an example user interface for viewing a calendar view ofmedia collections, according to some example embodiments.

FIG. 2C-2D are example user interfaces for creating a media collection,according to some example embodiments.

FIG. 2E is an example user interface for viewing a list of mediacollections, according to some example embodiments.

FIG. 2F-2H are example user interfaces to view operators working onmedia collections, according to some example embodiments.

FIG. 3 is a flow chart illustrating aspects of a method, according tosome example embodiments.

FIG. 4A-4E are example user interfaces to review and curate content formedia collections.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart illustrating aspects of a method, according tosome example embodiments.

FIG. 6 is an example user interface for filtering content, according tosome example embodiments.

FIG. 7A is an example interface for account settings, according to someexample embodiments.

FIG. 7B is an example interface for managing an account, according tosome example embodiments.

FIG. 7C-7H are example interfaces for creating a new media collection,according to some example embodiments.

FIG. 8 is a flowchart illustrating aspects of a method, according tosome example embodiments.

FIG. 9 is a block diagram illustrating an example of a softwarearchitecture that may be installed on a machine, according to someexample embodiments.

FIG. 10 illustrates a diagrammatic representation of a machine in theform of a computer system within which a set of instructions may beexecuted for causing the machine to perform any one or more of themethodologies discussed herein, according to an example embodiment.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION

Systems and methods described herein relate to computer assisted storygeneration, curation, and presentation from received content. Curatorsor operators may gather together content, such as, photos, video, audio,text, metadata, and other media content from content messages to puttogether one or more media collections or stories. These mediacollections may be based on a certain geolocation, event, topic, commonuser interest, product, etc. The content messages may be sent by users(e.g., users in a particular geolocation, users attending a particularevent, users sharing a particular interest, etc.) using client devices.A server system may receive tens of thousands of content messages (ifnot more) for each media collection that need to be reviewed by thesystem or a curator to choose what content to include in one or moremedia collections. These media collections may be referred to as“stories.” Moreover, many media collections may be time sensitive or“live” stories (e.g., only available for a certain window of time suchas a 24 hour period, during a particular event, etc.). Accordingly,methods and systems are described that provide tools to assist a systemand curator to be able to quickly curate such a high volume of contentmessages into media collections for immediate, ongoing, or periodicposting.

In one example embodiment, systems and methods are provided forreceiving, at a server computer, content messages from various contentsources (e.g. smartphone users), each content message comprising mediacontent and associated with a predetermined media collection. For eachof the content messages received, the media content is associated withthe predetermined media collection, and the content message is stored ina database. In some embodiments, the plurality of content messages aredisplayed on an operator device with other content messages associatedwith the media collection. In some embodiments, a predetermined triggerrelated to the media collection may be activated, and in response, anidentifier of the media collection is updated from a first indicator toa second indicator. This update notifies a user of the change (e.g. witha display alert or update) and indicates that an action needs to betaken on the media collection.

For example, one media collection may be directed to recent basketballgames, and may include content related to a basketball game that is inprogress. When particular events of interest occur during the basketballgame, a server may receive content messages that include new informationnot currently in the media collection. This may include content forparticularly interesting play, or an ending play with a final score.These content messages are stored in a database, and a trigger (e.g. aspike in content messages or a time since the last review of relatedcontent messages) may create an alert indicating that the mediacollection should be reviewed for an update based on the contentmessages received. Such an alert may be placed on the display of acurator that is associated with the media collection.

Some embodiments use automated media filtering to limit the mediacontent reviewed by a curator. For example, in some embodiments, blurry,dark, or otherwise low quality images and video clips may be sent to asystem for inclusion in a media collection. A system may automaticallyfilter out these low quality images, and present only the higher qualityimages to a curator. In some such embodiments, systems and methodsinclude receiving, at a server computer, content messages from variouscontent sources, each content message comprising media content andassociated with a predetermined media collection. For each of theplurality of content messages or individual pieces of media content(e.g. a single image or video clip) received, a system may determine aquality score and store the content messages in a database along withthe quality score. Various systems and methods also include receiving,from an operator device, a threshold percentage for the mediacollection. This threshold is used to filter out lower quality pieces ofcontent to reduce the amount of content to be reviewed by a curator. Theserver computer uses the threshold in determining a subset of theplurality of content messages associated with the media collection to bemade available to the operator device based on the threshold percentagereceived from the operator device and the quality score for each of theplurality of content messages. The subset of the plurality of contentmessages associated with media collection are then be displayed on theoperator device for the media collection.

Some embodiments include computer implemented tools for activating newstories (e.g. media collection), selecting media content for the newstories, and making these stories available to the public as part of acommunication system. In some such embodiments, systems and methodsinclude receiving, at a device, a request from a user to activate a newmedia collection. The computer then sends the request to a servercomputer for activation of the new media collection. When the new mediacollection is activated, the device receives a confirmation message. Thedevice may then receive content messages associated with the new mediacollection. A user operating the device can then select some of thecontent messages to be included in the new media collection, andcommunicate this curated selection to the server computer. The servercomputer causes the selection of content messages to be included in thenew media collection. When the media collection is requested by otherdevices in the communication system, the curated selection is sent tothe devices.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating a networked system 100, accordingto some example embodiments. System 100 includes one or more clientdevices 110. System 100 further includes one or more operator devices130, a server system 120, and a network 104 that is used to conveycommunications between client devices 110, operator device(s) 130, andthe server system 120. For example, the networked system 100 may be amessaging system where clients may communicate and exchange data withinthe networked system 100.

The client device(s) 110 may comprise, but is not limited to, a mobilephone, desktop computer, laptop computer, portable digital assistants(PDAs), smart phones, tablet, phablet ultra-books, network-enabledcamera, netbooks, multi-processor systems, microprocessor-based orprogrammable consumer electronics, game consoles, set-top boxes,computers in vehicles, or any other communication device that a user mayutilize to access the networked system 100.

The client device 110 may include a camera device for capturing content,or may be coupled to a separate camera device that is used to capturethe content (e.g., video, photographs, audio, etc.) prior to sending toserver system 120 or other client devices 110. Some embodiments mayinclude wearable devices such as a pendant with an integrated camerathat is coupled to a client device 110. Other embodiments may includeother associated devices with an integrated camera that may be wearable,such as a watch, eyeglasses, clothing, such as a hat or jacket withintegrated electronics, a clip-on electronic device, or any other suchdevices that may communicate or be integrated with a client device 110.

The client device 110 may access the various data and applicationsprovided by other entities in the system 100 via web client 112 (e.g., abrowser, such as the Internet Explorer® browser developed by Microsoft®Corporation of Redmond, Washington State) or one or more clientapplications 114. The client device 110 may include one or moreapplications 114 (also referred to as “apps”) such as, but not limitedto, a web browser, messaging application, electronic mail (email)application, an e-commerce site application, a mapping or locationapplication, a news or media application, and the like. In someembodiments, one or more applications 114 may be included in a given oneof the client device 110, and configured to locally provide the userinterface and at least some of the functionalities with the application114 configured to communicate with other entities in the system 100(e.g., operator device(s) 130, server system 120, etc.), on an as neededbasis, for data and/or processing capabilities not locally available(e.g., access to various information, to authenticate a user 106, toverify a method of payment, to retrieve/synchronize footprints, etc.).Conversely, one or more applications 114 may not be included in theclient device 110, and then the client device 110 may use its webbrowser to access the one or more applications hosted on other entitiesin the system 100 (e.g., operator device(s) 130, server system 120,etc.).

One or more users 106 may be a person, a machine, or other means ofinteracting with the client device 110. In example embodiments, the user106 may not be part of the system 100, but may interact with the system100 via the client device 110 or other means. For instance, the user 106may provide input (e.g., touch screen input or alphanumeric input) tothe client device 110 and the input may be communicated to otherentities in the system 100 (e.g., operator device(s) 130, server system120, other client device(s) 110, etc.) via the network 104. In thisinstance, the other entities in the system 100, in response to receivingthe input from the user 106, may communicate information to the clientdevice 110 via the network 104 to be presented to the user 106. In thisway, the user 106 may interact with the various entities in the system100 using the client device 110.

An operator device(s) 130 may include, but is not limited to, a mobilephone, desktop computer, laptop computer, portable digital assistants(PDAs), smart phones, tablet, phablet ultra-books, network-enabledcamera, netbooks, multi-processor systems, microprocessor-based orprogrammable consumer electronics, game consoles, set-top boxes,computers in vehicles, or any other communication device that a user oroperator 108 may utilize to access the networked system 100.

The operator device(s) 130 may access the various data and applicationsprovided by other entities in the system 100 via a web client 132 (e.g.,a browser, such as the Internet Explorer® browser developed byMicrosoft® Corporation of Redmond, Washington State) or one or moreoperator applications 134. The operator device(s) 130 may include one ormore operator application(s) 134 (also referred to as “apps”) such as,but not limited to, a web browser, messaging application, media curationtool, electronic mail (email) application, an e-commerce siteapplication, a mapping or location application, a news or mediaapplication, and the like. In some embodiments, one or more applications134 may be included in a given one of the operator device(s) 130, andconfigured to locally provide the user interface and at least some ofthe functionalities with the application 134 configured to communicatewith other entities in the system 100 (e.g., client devices 110, serversystem 120, etc.), on an as needed basis, for data and/or processingcapabilities not locally available (e.g., access to various information,to authenticate a user 106 or operator 108, to verify a method ofpayment, to retrieve/synchronize footprints, etc.). Conversely, one ormore applications 134 may not be included in the operator device(s) 130,and then the operator device 134 may use its web browser to access theone or more applications hosted on other entities in the system 100(e.g., server system 120, etc.).

One or more operators 108 may be a person, a machine, or other means ofinteracting with the operator device 130 (e.g., a user such as a curatoror operator). In example embodiments, the operator 108 may not be partof the system 100, but may interact with the system 100 via the operatordevice 130 or other means. For instance, the operator 108 may provideinput (e.g., touch screen input or alphanumeric input) to the operatordevice 130 and the input may be communicated to other entities in thesystem 100 (e.g., client device(s) 110, server system 120, etc.) via thenetwork 104. In this instance, the other entities in the system 100, inresponse to receiving the input from the operator 108, may communicateinformation to the operator device 130 via the network 104 to bepresented to the operator 108. In this way, the operator 108 mayinteract with the various entities in the system 100 using the operatordevice 130.

The client device(s) 110 and the operator device(s) 130 are connected tothe server system 120 via a network 104. The network 104 may include anycombination of wired and wireless connections. This may include cellularaccess networks, access point interfaces to the internet, or any othersuch networks 104 or network elements. For example, a client device 110may interface with network 104 using a Long Term Evolution (LTE)cellular network to communicate with server system 120. Or a clientdevice 110 may use a Wi-Fi access point to interface with network 104and communicate with server system 120.

Server system 120 may be one or more computing devices as part of aservice or network computing system. In certain embodiments,particularly embodiments with large numbers of client devices 110interfacing with a server system 120 from widely different locations allover the globe, server system 120 may be a distributed network of servercomputers that are similarly widely distributed, and which communicatewith each other via network 104. The server system 120 may include a webserver 122, and a content processing server 124, that may becommunicatively coupled with one or more databases 126. Databases 126may be storage devices that store information such as data related tocontent messages, media collections, etc.

The content processing server 124 may provide functionality to performvarious computer assisted media collection generation, curation, andpresentation from received content (as examples). The content processingserver 124 may access one or more databases 126 to retrieve stored datato use in computer assisted media collection generation, curation, andpresentation from received content.

In some embodiments, client devices 110, operator device(s) 130, and anyelements of server system 120 and network 104, may be implemented usingelements of software architecture 902 or machine 1000 described in FIGS.9 and 10 .

Networked system 100 may be used in communication of content messagesfrom client devices 110 to a server system 120, and communication ofmedia collections from the server system 120 to the client devices 110.A client device 110 may communicate content messages to server system120, and a client device 110 may receive media collections from serversystem 120. In addition to this functionality of the embodimentsdescribed herein, client device 110 may additionally receive privatepieces of content and communications from other users 106, and mayconvey a personal story or media collection to server system 120, withthe personal story or media collection including images and or videofrom content messages generated by client device 110, another devicecoupled to client device 110, or other users 106. Similarly, clientdevice 110 sends content messages and receives stories or mediacollections, and may additionally perform other actions.

In one example embodiment, an operator application 134 may include amedia curation tool. The media curation tool may allow an operator 108to create new media collections, view a list of media collections, viewa plurality of content items or content messages associated with apredetermined media collection, curate content into media collectionsfor immediate, ongoing, or periodic posting, etc. The plurality of mediacontent may be received by server system 120 in a plurality of contentmessages from a plurality of users 106 (e.g., via client devices 110).

Using the curation tool, an operator 108 may be able to view a list ofall of the media collections that are active, planned, or archived. Forexample, using the curation tool, the operator 108 may provide anindication to view a list of media collections (e.g., press a button,select an option, click on an icon, etc.). An example user interface 200is shown in FIG. 2A. The example user interface 200 may display a listof media collections (e.g., stories list 202). The user interface 200may allow an operator 108 to search for a particular media collection,by providing an area 204 for an operator 108 to enter search criteria.For example, the operator 108 may enter a media collection identifier, amedia collection name, keywords, etc. The user interface 200 alsoprovides a mechanism 206 to filter the results/list of media collectionsby various criteria. For example, an operator 108 may filter the mediacollections by location, campus, event, time zone, live event, etc.

The list of media collections may include a list of all active mediacollections 212 and a list of upcoming media collections 214. Each listmay include an indication of what operators or curators 216 are assignedto each media collection. There may be one or more operators 108assigned to each media collection. The user interface 200 also allowsthe operator 108 to add or remove operators 108 for each mediacollection. Each media collection may have a title 201, a number ofcontent items or content messages 203 that are in the queue for thatmedia collection, a number of content items that have been cleared 205(viewed, reviewed, etc.), and the last time the media collection wasupdated 207. Upcoming media collections 214 may also include informationabout when they are scheduled to go “live.”

The media collections may also indicate a status by an indicator such ascolor or other method. For example, media collections that do not needimmediate attention may have a first indicator (e.g., a green color),media collections that need attention may have a second indicator (e.g.,a red color), and media collections that are incomplete (e.g., do nothave a geofence, need approval, do not have a thumbnail, etc.) may havea third indicator (e.g., a yellow color). The server system 120 may setor update a status indicator based on a predetermined trigger, asexplained below. An operator 108 may select any of the media collectionsto go to a detailed view for a particular media collection.

The user interface 200 may also provide a mechanism 210 for the operator108 to view metrics associated with one or more media collections, oneor more operators 108, etc. And the user interface 200 may also providea mechanism 211 for accessing a calendar view of the media collections.A calendar view of the media collections is shown in FIG. 2B. In thecalendar view 220, an operator 108 may see live media collections laidout in a monthly view.

An operator 108 may also view a list of just the media collectionsassigned to the operator 108, as shown displayed in example interface250 in FIG. 2E. The interface 250 may display the name 251 of theoperator 108, a logout button 152, a picture 253 of the operator 108, alist of the media collections 254 that the operator 108 is currentlyworking on, a list 255 of other operators 108 that are currently online(e.g., working on media collections), what operators 108 are working oneach media collection 256, and other media collections 257.

Each media collection list item (e.g., media collection list item 258)may include information about the media collection. For example, themedia collection list item may include a name of the media collection(e.g., Stanford, Purdue, etc.), a number of content items or contentmessages in the queue for that media collection (e.g., 1253, 253, 104,etc.), a time since the last update was pushed live or content items orcontent messages were added to the queue (e.g., 00:05:53), the amount ofcontent items or content messages cleared or reviewed/curated (e.g., anamount for the operator 108 (e.g., 255, 245, 2135 etc.), and a totalamount (e.g., 12.5k, 172.5k, etc.), and a last updated time stamp and bywhom it was updated (e.g., 01/12/16 (D. Boone)). The operator 108 mayalso be able to add an operator 108 to a media collection, for example,using a drop down box 259 as shown in example interface 250.

The operator 108 may be further provided with a mechanism to view alloperators 108 currently working on media collections, as shown ininterface 265 of FIG. 2F. The interface 265 may provide a photograph ofthe operator 108, a location of the operator 108 (e.g., west coast, eastcoast, etc.), a number of media collections the operator 108 is workingon, the number of content items or content messages cleared orreviewed/curated for the day, media collections worked on for the day,etc. The operator 108 may view further details for each operator 108 asshown in interface 275 in FIG. 2G. For example, interface 275 mayinclude various metrics for the operator 108, such as, average time ittakes to clear 100 content items or content messages, average number offlagged (e.g., selected) content items or content messages per 100content items or content messages, ratio of flagged to approved contentitems or content messages, average time a flagged content item orcontent message has been in the queue before it is flagged, average timean approved content item or content message has been in the queue beforeit is activated, average time it takes for an approved content item orcontent message to go from flagged to approved, average time betweenflagging two separate content items or content messages, average lengthof each updated number of content items or content messages per update,number of media collection seconds per update, etc. The operator 108 mayalso be able to view metrics specific to a media collection (withsimilar metrics as described above), as shown in interface 285 of FIG.2H.

The operator 108 may further be provided with a mechanism to create anew media collection (e.g., via a selectable “create story” icon 208 asshown in FIGS. 2A and 2B). A user interface 230 such as the one shown inFIG. 2C may be provided to the operator 108 to create a new mediacollection. The user interface 230 may allow the operator 108 to inputvarious information related to the new story or media collection. Forexample, the operator 108 may input a media collection identifier (ID)231, username 233, location or venue 235 (e.g., city, state/country,various locations, etc.), friendlink display text 237 (e.g., “FashionWeek in NYC”), media collection display text 239 (e.g., “Our FashionWeek Story”), a start time and end time 232 (e.g., when the collectionfence will open and close). The operator 108 may also be able to input atype of media collection (not shown). Some examples of types of mediacollections may be worldwide (e.g., appears to every user 106), publiclocal (e.g., appears to local users 106 and other outputs), privatelocal (e.g., only appears to local users 106), employee whitelist (e.g.,only appears to employees such as an operator 108 or curator for aparticular media collection).

The operator 108 may also be able to upload a thumbnail 234 that may beassociated with the media collection and displayed in various mediaoutput displays (e.g., apps, websites, etc.). The operator 108 may beable to choose from a selection of predetermined thumbnails or create anew thumbnail. The operator 108 may also select or add filters 236and/or intro animations to be associated with the media collection. Theoperator 108 may also include whitelisted users 238 and search forkeywords 241 to be associated with the media collection. There may beadditional information 242 that may be selected by the operator 108. Forexample, if the operator 108 has selected public local or private localfor the media collection type, a check box may appear that can beselected to indicate that a collection fence is different from abroadcast fence. If the operator 108 selects this option (e.g., checksthis box) then the operator 108 may be prompted to draw more than onegeofence. Other additional information 242 may include an option to showthe media collection on a website, show the media collection in a searchor media forum (e.g., Google Now, Google search, etc.), and show mediacollections in a browser. If the operator 108 selects to show the mediacollection in one of these options, the operator 108 may be prompted toinput additional information such as a description of the mediacollection (e.g., text box to input a description of the mediacollection), color for the media collection, etc.

The operator 108 may also be able to draw a geofence (e.g., a virtualfence over a geographic area) on a map to associate a particularlocation with the media collection. For example, the operator 108 mayselect a geofence drawing button 244 and then create a polygon 245 toindicate the location to associate with the media collection, as shownin FIG. 2D. After drawing the polygon 245, the operator 108 may be ableto name and prioritize the geofence and then finalize it. An indicationof the geofence 246 may be displayed to the operator 108. Additionalgeofences may be created by the operator 108, if desired. A mediacollection may have more than one geofence associated with the mediacollection. A geofence may be deleted by selecting the geofence andindicated it should be deleted (e.g., pressing a particular button). Theoperator 108 may also move the geofence around on the map to anotherlocation, or copy and paste the geofence to another location. A geofencemay be used, for example, to determine eligibility of a user 106 tosubmit a content item or content message for a particular mediacollection. For example, if a user 106 is determined to be within thegeofence for the media collection, the user 106 may be eligible tosubmit content items or content messages for that media collection.

After the operator 108 finishes entering information to create the newmedia collection, the operator 108 may submit the information. Forexample, the operator 108 may select a submit option 243 and theoperator device 130 may send a request to create a new media collectionwith the information to server system 120. Server system 120 may receiveand evaluate the request and information and create a new mediacollection and store the associated information in one or more databases126. The server system 120 may generate a message indicating a new mediacollection has been created and send it to one or more operator devices130.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart illustrating aspects of a method 300, according tosome example embodiments. For illustrative purposes, method 300 isdescribed with respect to networked system 100 of FIG. 1 . It is to beunderstood that method 300 may be practiced with other systemconfigurations in other embodiments.

At operation 302, a server system 120 (e.g., at content processingserver 124) may receive a plurality of content messages from a pluralityof content sources. The content messages may comprise media content(e.g., photos, video, audio, text, etc.) and may be associated with oneor more media collections.

For example, a plurality of users 106 may send a plurality of contentmessages related to a particular event (e.g., music concert, sportsevent, street fair, expo, etc.), a geolocation (e.g., concert venue,sports arena, city, neighborhood, state, etc.), a subject or topic(e.g., popular song, product, weather, etc.), a common user interest(e.g., shared interest in sports, music, clothing, celebrities,products, activities, etc.), etc. The content messages may be createdand sent by a plurality of client devices 110. For example, a user 106may take a picture, record a video, incorporate text or a media overlay(e.g., filter) with a picture, video, etc., and send the content messageto another user 106 or to server system 120 to be associated with one ormore predetermined media collections (or to create a new mediacollection). Content messages may include additional information such asa timestamp indicating the time the content was created or sent, ausername, etc. The timestamp may be used to sort the contentchronologically or determine any expiration day/time of a contentmessage. The username may be used to identify the users 106, identifyusers 106 contributing good content to be flagged as a good contributor,identify users 106 who may be spammers so they can be muted, etc.

For each of the plurality of content messages received by the serversystem 120 (e.g., by content processing server 124), the contentprocessing server 124 may associate the content in the content messagewith one or more predetermined media collections, as shown in operation304. For example, an indication of one or more media collections may beincluded in the content message, and the content processing server 124may utilize the indication to associate the content with the one or moremedia collections. In another example, the content processing server 124may determine an associated media collection based on the content in thecontent message (e.g., via text recognition, object recognition, audiofoot print, etc.). The content processing server 124 may store thecontent message associated with the one or more media collections, asshown in operation 306.

In operation 308, the server system 120 may cause the content or contentmessages to be displayed on an operator device 130. For example, anoperator 108 may use an interface in a web browser or in an application134, such as the user interface 400 shown in FIG. 4A, to review andcurate content for one or more media collections. In the exampleinterface 400, the operator 108 is viewing/curating ten different mediacollections, as shown in the tool bar 402. The media collections inexample interface 400 are associated with college campuses (e.g.,Stanford, Purdue, Duke, Yale, Michigan, Vanderbilt, Berkeley, Oregon,Tufts). At any time, an operator 108 may be viewing or curating one ormore media collections. Media collections may be ongoing stories (e.g.,ongoing stories associated with a college campus, celebrity, music band,product, activity, etc.) or may be live stories associated with a liveevent (e.g., concert in progress, game in progress, black Friday, socialevent, etc.).

Each media collection may have an identifier associated with the mediacollection. The identifier (e.g., identifier 404) may include the nameof the media collection, a number of content items or content messagesin the queue (e.g., to be reviewed/curated), a local time of thespecific story, a time which may indicate a time since the mediacollection was last updated by an operator 108 or a time of the mostrecent approved content item or content message, and a status indicator.Media collections may be removed or added to the interface 400 by theoperator 108 or server system 120.

A status indicator in the identifier of the media collection may includea color, a flashing tab, etc. For example, the identifier of the mediacollection (e.g., tab 404) may appear green (e.g., a first indicator)when the media collection does not require immediate attention, red(e.g., a second indicator) when the media collection does requireimmediate attention, or yellow (e.g., a third indicator) when a mediacollection is incomplete.

The server system 120 may set or update an identifier of a mediacollection based on a trigger. For example, returning to FIG. 3 , theserver system 120 (e.g., content processing server 124) may determine apredetermined trigger has been activated, as shown in operation 310. Thepredetermined trigger may be a predetermined amount of time (e.g., 30seconds, 1 minute, 15 minutes, 1 hour, 1 day, etc.) that has passedsince the content items or content messages associated with the mediacollection have been viewed on the operator device 130, a predeterminednumber of content items or content messages that have not been viewed onthe operator device 130, a predetermined amount of time that has passedsince any content associated with the media collection has been pushedlive to be viewed by users 106, etc. If the content processing server124 determines that a predetermine trigger has been activated, it willthen update an identifier of the media collection from a first indicatorto a second indicator, as shown in operation 312.

For example, the content processing server 124 may determine that apredetermined amount of time (e.g., 5 minutes, 15 minutes, 1 hour, 1day) has passed since the content items or content messages associatedwith the media collection have been viewed on the operator device 130.The content processing server 124 may change the indicator from green(e.g., a first indicator) to red (e.g., a second indicator) to alert theoperator 108 to the fact that the media collection needs immediateattention. This may be particularly important when an operator 108 iscurating multiple media collections and for live media collections(e.g., events in progress) where timeliness may be important. Forexample, a concert may be only two hours long and so an operator 108 maynot want to let more than a few minutes pass before updating content ina media collection related to the concert.

The operator 108 may select the identifier to view content to bereviewed and curated for a particular media collection. For example, thecurrently selected media collection in example interface 400 is “Purdue”404. Once a media collection is selected, information specific to theselected media collection may be displayed. For example, for theselected “Purdue” media collection, information displayed may includethe name of the media collection 408, the current length 410 of themedia collection (e.g., the number of content messages or content itemsin the live or published version of the media collection), the locationwithin the media collection (e.g., a particular geofence within themedia collection, or all locations within the media collection), etc.There may be other mechanisms for performing additional functionality,such as a button 401 to turn the media collection on or off (e.g.,turning a media collection on may push the selected media collection orstory live). Other functionality may include a button 403 to open orclose a geofence, a button 405 to preview the media collection in avideo player, a button 407 to send the current media collection to auser 106 or list of users, and advanced settings 409 with additionaloptions.

Example advanced settings may include filters to filter out contentitems or content messages of certain types by selecting various filters.For example, types that can be filtered out may include videos, photos,approved content items or content messages, flagged content items orcontent messages, whitelisted content items or content messages,unselected content items or content messages (e.g., not approved,flagged, or whitelisted), etc. Filtering may only effect the currentqueue.

The operator 108 may also filter a media collection by location, ifthere is more than one location within the media collection, defaultcontent item or content message length, how many content items orcontent messages that will be displayed on a page, how often the numberof content items or content messages in the queue are updated, how maycontent items or content messages the operator 108 can go back whenselecting an undo button, all submissions, current media collectiononly, current plus flagged, unselected, unselected plus whitelisted,etc.

The interface 400 may further include a mechanism for loading the nextcontent items or content messages in the queue. For example, there maybe a button 411 that may be selected by the operator 108 to get the next100 content items or content messages. FIG. 4B shows a collapsed view412 of the information provided for the selected media collection.

The operator 108 may be able to view a timeline, such as the exampletimeline 416 shown in FIG. 4E. The timeline 416 may show the progress ofoperator 108, relative to the rest of the media collection. For example,content items or content messages that have been viewed by the operator108 may be shown in a first color (e.g., blue) 417 or other indication,and content items or content messages that have not yet been viewed maybe represented by a second color (e.g., grey) 418 or other indication.Published content items or content messages (or chapters) may also berepresented (e.g., by a bar 419A or 419B).

An operator 108 may also have the option of adding an advertisement tothe media collection. For example, an operator 108 may be able to selectto add an ad via a button 415 as shown in FIG. 4D. A list of ads may bedisplayed to the operator 108 (e.g., in a separate window) and theoperator 108 may select and drag and drop one or more ads to be includedin the media collection. Ads may also appear automatically afterchapters are published, when appropriate (e.g., based on an amount oftime that has passed in the media collection or since the last ad wasdisplayed in the media collection).

While viewing the content items or content messages for a mediacollection, the operator 108 may select individual content items orcontent messages to show that the individual content items or contentmessages have been approved for pushing live (e.g., “published” to beviewed by users 106 as part of the media collection), as shown in FIG.4C. A visual indication may be displayed when the individual contentitem or content message is selected or approved (e.g., it may behighlighted, flash on and off, greyed out, etc.). Once the operator 108selects the content items or content messages to be approved, theoperator 108 may indicate that the selected content items or contentmessages should be applied, for example, by selecting a “apply” button414. There may be a number (not shown) that appears next to the applybutton 414 that indicates how many approved content items or contentmessages will be applied. Selecting the apply button 414 will cause thecurrent chapter (e.g., the approved content items or content messages)to be pushed live. For example, the selection of content items orcontent messages is sent to the server system 120 and it may be receivedby server system 120 (e.g., content processing server 124) and includedin the selection of content in the media collection and made availableto users 106 to view as part of the media collection. Once the approvedcontent items or content messages are applied, the visual indication maychange to indicate they have gone live (e.g., the color may change,etc.).

An operator 108 may view and edit individual content items or contentmessages. For example, a tool may be provided to stabilize shaky video,strip a media overlay or filter off of a content item or content message(e.g., a media overlay that has inappropriate content, covers a keyfeature or object in the content item or message, etc.), block aparticular user 106, report a content item or content message, trip aphotograph or video length, etc.

As mentioned above, server system 120 may receive tens of thousands (ormore) of content messages from a plurality of client devices 110containing media content from a plurality of users 106. It may be verydifficult, if not impossible, for an operator 108 to review and curateso many messages for one or more media collections. Moreover, may mediacollections may relate to a live event where reviewing, curating, andpushing content items or content messages live for a media collectionmay need to be done in a very timely manner. Accordingly, the curationtool described above provides a number of mechanisms and filters toallow an operator 108 to quickly and easily view and curate contentitems or content messages related to one or more media collections.

The curation tool may further provide a mechanism for an operator 108 tofilter out a certain percentage of content items or content messages toautomate some of the review and curation process so that an operator 108may be able to efficiently review and curate content items or contentmessages in a timely manner. FIG. 5 is a flowchart illustrating aspectsof a method 500, according to some example embodiments. For illustrativepurposes, method 500 is described with respect to networked system 100of FIG. 1 . It is to be understood that method 500 may be practiced withother system configurations in other embodiments.

At operation 502, the server system 120 (e.g., at content processingserver 124) may receive a plurality of content messages from a pluralityof content sources. The content messages may comprise media content(e.g., photos, video, audio, text, etc.) and may be associated with oneor more media collections.

For example, a plurality of users 106 may send a plurality of contentmessages related to a particular event (e.g., music concert, sportsevent, street fair, expo, etc.), a geolocation (e.g., concert venue,sports arena, city, neighborhood, state, etc.), a subject or topic(e.g., popular song, product, weather, etc.), a common user interest(e.g., shared interest in sports, music, clothing, celebrities,products, activities, etc.), etc. The content messages may be createdand sent by a plurality of client devices 110. For example, a user 106may take a picture, record a video, incorporate text or a media overlay(e.g., filter) with a picture, video, etc., and send the content messageto another user 106 or to server system 120 to be associated with one ormore predetermined media collections (or to create a new mediacollection). Content messages may include additional information such asa timestamp indicating the time the content was created or sent, ausername, etc. The timestamp may be used to sort the contentchronologically or determine any expiration day/time of a contentmessage. The username may be used to identify the users 106, identifyusers 106 contributing good content to be flagged as a good contributor,identify users 106 who may be spammers so they can be muted, etc.

For each of the plurality of content messages received by the serversystem 120 (e.g., by content processing server 124), the contentprocessing server 124 may analyze each of the plurality of contentmessages to determine a quality score for each of the plurality ofcontent messages, as shown in operation 504. The quality score may bedetermined based on a number of different factors. For example, thecontent processing server 124 can analyze the media content in thecontent message to determine the quality of the audio, photographs,videos, text, or other content. If the quality of the media content islow (e.g., lower resolution, shaky video, blurry text, unclear audio,etc.), the content message is given a lower score than for media contentwith a higher quality.

Some example factors that may be used to determine a quality scoreinclude an explicit content likelihood (e.g., probability that images orvideos contain explicit content such as nudity, drug use, profanity,etc.), underexposure (e.g., very dark or completely black images orvideos), overexposure (e.g., too bright images or videos), noise level(e.g., images or videos that look to grainy as a result of being takenin low light conditions with a low-end camera), shaky camera (e.g., whencamera is too shaky when taking a video), blurry media content (e.g.,images and video that look too blurry), low quality compression (e.g.,removes content messages with excessive compression artifacts), audioquality, areas within an event (e.g., if too many content messagesshowing a particular area in an sports arena or a particular play in agame, may be scored lower), content messages that are all black andwhite, etc.

A combination of different factors may result into a single qualityscore. For example, quality score may range from 0 to 1, with 0 beingthe lowest quality and 1 being the highest quality. A content message oflower quality may be scored with a 0 or 0.1. A content message of higherquality may be scored a 0.9 or 1. The factors may be combined into asingle quality score using heuristics and/or using machine languagebased on operator 108 behavior. The content processing server 124 mayoptionally sort all of the content messages for a media collection byquality score.

A quality score, in some embodiments, is based on a detailed exposureanalysis of an image or a sample of frames in a video clip. For example,a histogram of luminance may be calculated, and a quality may beassigned to the image or video based on a correlation of the histogramwith a quality score. Such a correlation may be based on a table orfunction associating certain histogram patterns with selected qualityscores, or may be generated in any other such manner. For video wheremultiple sample frames are analyzed, an average of scores for each framemay be used to select a score, a worst score for an individual frame ofall the analyzed frames may be used, or any such combination or functionof multiple scores or selections of scores may be used.

In some embodiments, a motion-blur estimation of an image or of selectedvideo clips is used as a part of the quality score. Such motion blurestimation may, for example, be based on a calculation of energygradients on detected edges, or other such motion estimations. For videoclips, identifying video frames with motion blur above a thresholdamount may trigger analysis of additional sample frames to determine howmuch of the video is impacted by motion blur, or to identify when ashakiness of a camera sensor impacts an entire video. In certainembodiments, a system may use a threshold for video motion or“shakiness” to filter out videos with camera motion or shake above thethreshold. In other embodiments, a shakiness or motion score may simplymodify an overall quality score. In other embodiments, both a hardthreshold as well as an input to an overall quality score may be used.

In some embodiments, images or sample video frames may be analyzed forcompression artifacts or other image processing artifacts that indicatea lower image quality or errors introduced into an image due to variouscompression or communication problems. Such artifacts may include imageringing, image contouring, staircase noise along curving edges,posterizing artifacts, or block boundary artifacts. Videos may beanalyzed for additional video based compression artifacts such as blockboundary artifacts associated with motion compensation or mosquito noisethat may be identified by analysis of selected frames of a video. Thepresence of such compression artifacts and the intensity of anyidentified compression artifacts may be used to modify or select aquality score for an image or video clip. In addition to suchinformation loss associated with compression or lossy transmission,images and video frames may also be analyzed for other types of noise.For example, variance in smooth or uniform regions of an image may beanalyzed for noise artifacts, such as noise associated with a lowquality or malfunctioning camera sensor, low quality or dirty optics ofa camera, or any other such source of noise that may lower, corrupt, ormodify the data in the image.

Audio data is also used for quality scoring of video clips in someembodiments. In such embodiments, various audio metrics such as dynamicrange, noise levels, language clarity or language recognition data, orany other such audio based information may be used to select an audioquality score or to impact an overall quality score. Different audiodata metrics, in some embodiments, are used based on a determined audioenvironment. For example, a video clip with speech may be assesseddifferently than a clip with music, or video clips with different typesof music may be assessed differently. Additionally, audio spotting toidentify objectionable audio content (e.g. taboo spoken language orexplicit music lyrics) can be used for a quality score or a qualitythreshold flag in some embodiments.

In addition to quality scores based on image quality, some scores may bebased on image content. For example, as mentioned above, imageprocessing may be used to identify objectionable content such as nudityor taboo language within an image or video clip. In some embodiments, apreferred orientation (e.g. landscape or portrait) may be used forquality scoring. Some systems may additionally use image recognition toidentify desirable content. For example, in some systems, images ofanimals or images of objects associated with a party environment areidentified as desirable. The presence of such images within video framesor pictures may be used to increase an overall quality score, or togenerate a content score.

Feedback or machine learning is used in certain embodiments to select orset a quality score. Such systems may use neural networks to extractfeatures identified as preferred or interesting to system users. Forexample, in some embodiments, images selected by system users forinclusion in one or more stories may be selected for a learning set.Some or all images and video frames from the learning set may havefeatures extracted and analyzed using a feed-forward artificial neuralnetwork such as a convolutional neural network to identify desirableelements of the images, and to automatically assign an interestingnessscore to future images received based on the neural network generatedwith the learning set. Feature maps used within such neural networks maybe based on any analysis metric described herein, including imagequality features and image content features. In some embodiments,learnable filters may be selected and automatically updated based in adatabase of images from image processing services used for contentanalysis of images or video frames. In other embodiments, any other suchsources may be used for learnable filters. Such analysis may be appliedto both image elements of content as well as to audio elements ofvideos.

Other feedback mechanisms may be used in various embodiments. Forexample, in some embodiments, a content source, user, or accountassociated with generating an image or video clip may have associatedhistory data. In some embodiments, association of a content source witha history of content selected by system users or associated with highquality ratings may be used as an input to a quality score, or may beused as a quality flag. Various content source metrics such as thequality history, number of images sent, number of system followers orinterconnections, or other such metrics may be used.

In some embodiments, multiple different quality scores may be associatedwith each individual piece of media content, so that an image may havean exposure quality score, a noise quality score, a motion qualityscore, a compression quality score, a resolution quality scores, anaudio quality score, a content score, or any other such separate qualityscores. In such embodiments, an overall quality score based on anycombination of such individual quality scores may also be provided.Further, as mentioned above, some or all of such quality scores mayindividually be used to reject certain pieces of media contentautomatically, with only the images or videos that exceed all thresholdsbeing presented to a system user. Such a system may have any number ofthresholds based on separate quality scores or multiple differentcombinations of different quality scores. In some embodiments, suchthresholds may be variable to present a target number of images and/orvideos to a system user. Similarly, different types of images or videoclips may be assessed differently, such that weights may be applied todifferent images differently based on content, location, time, proximityin location or time to a holiday or news event, overall environment, orother such information. The metrics and weights for any of the above, insome embodiments, are applied differently to a selfie taken inside thanto concert footage taken outdoors at night.

In operation 506, the content processing server 124 may store theplurality of content messages, along with the quality score for each ofthe plurality of content messages, in one or more databases 126. Thequality score may be stored as metadata associated with the contentmessage. The content processing server 124 may optionally sort all ofthe content messages by quality score.

In operation 508, the content processing server 124 may receive, from anoperator device 130, a threshold percentage for a media collection. Forexample, the operator 108 may be provided with an interface, such as theinterface 600 shown in FIG. 6 , to provide a threshold percentage 605 bywhich to filter the content in the media collection. For example, theoperator 108 may only want to receive the top quality content messages(e.g., due to a large volume of content messages in the queue/mediacollection). The operator 108 may enter a percent (e.g., 50%) and submitthe threshold percentage to the content processing server 124 (e.g., viathe “APPLY” button 607).

In operation 510, the content processing server 124 may determine asubset of the plurality of content messages associated with the mediacollection to be made available to the operator 108 (e.g., via anoperator device 130) based on the threshold percent received by theoperator device 130 and the quality score for each of the plurality ofmessages. For example, the content processing server 124 may determinethe top 50% of the content messages in the media collection based on thequality score for each of the plurality of messages (e.g., the top 50%of highest scoring content messages).

In operation 512, the content processing server 124 may cause only thesubset of the plurality of content messages associated with the mediacollection to be displayed on the operator device 130 for the mediacollection. For example, if the content processing system 124 hasreceived 10,000 content messages, and the threshold was set to 30%, thecontent processing system 124 may only cause 3000 content messages to bedisplayed on the operator device 130.

Since the content processing server 124 may be continuously receiving aplurality of content messages, the content processing server 124 mayre-compute the subset of plurality of content messages for a mediacollection periodically. For example, after causing the initial subsetof content messages to be displayed on the operator device 130, thecontent processing server 124 may determine a subset of newly receivedcontent processing messages (e.g., since the last subset was determined)after a predetermined number of content messages have been received(e.g., 100, 1000, etc.) or after a predetermined amount of time (e.g.,30 seconds, 10 minutes, 30 minutes, 1 hour, etc.). Moreover, theoperator 108 may change the threshold value from first value (e.g., 50%)to a second value (e.g., 30%). The content processing server 124 mayreceive the new threshold value and use the new threshold value todetermine the subset of the plurality of content messages received goingforward. In addition, or in the alternative, the content processingserver 124 may also adjust the value of a subset that was already madeavailable to the operator device 130 (e.g., may cause more contentmessages to be displayed on the operator device 130 if the operator 108increased the threshold percentage value).

Input from an operator 108 may be used to improve the quality scorealgorithm. For example, an operator 108 may be able to mark or otherwiseindicate when a content message is low-quality. The server system 120may also track each time an operator 108 flags or accepts a contentmessage, or indicates a content message is related to a particularbreaking news story, etc. For example, the content processing server 124may analyze content messages that were accepted by operators 108 andcontent messages that were not accepted by operators 108, and use thisdata to create a model to determine a probability that an operator 108would accept a particular content message. This factor (e.g.,probability of operator acceptance) may be used as a factor in computingthe quality score for the content message.

In another example embodiment, a client application 114 may be providedthat includes a media collection creation and curation tool for an enduser 106. The tool may allow the user 106 to create new mediacollections, view a list of media collections, view a plurality ofcontent items or content messages associated with a predetermined mediacollection, select and/or curate content into media collections forimmediate, ongoing, or periodic posting, etc. The plurality of mediacontent may have been received by server system 120 in a plurality ofcontent messages from a plurality of users 106 (e.g., via client devices110). For example, a user 106 may wish to create a new media collectionassociated with a personal event, such as a wedding reception, child'sbirthday party, family vacation, etc. The user 106 may use a clientdevice 110 to establish an account, create new media collections (e.g.,one for his wedding reception, one for his niece's birthday party, onefor an upcoming family vacation, etc.), view existing media collections,to view content messages (e.g., from friends and family) associated withmedia collections, and to select and/or curate content messages to beincluded in one or more media collections.

A user 106 may first provide identifying information to establish anaccount to create new media collections, view existing mediacollections, to view content messages associated with media collections,and to select and/or curate content messages to be included in one ormore media collections. For example, the client device 110 may cause aninterface to be displayed on the client device 110, such as theinterface 700 shown in in FIG. 7A. Some examples of identifyinginformation 702 may include the user 106's name, a username, a mobilephone number, email. Other identifying information 702 may include ahome address, a work address, an alternate email address, an alternatephone number, etc. In some example embodiments, the interface 700 mayalso allow the user 106 to set notification sounds on or off 704, manageadditional services 706, specify who can send the user 106 contentmessages 708, view his own one or more media collections 710, and gethelp or support 712.

The user 106 may then submit the identifying information 702 (and anyother information) to establish his account. The client device 110 mayreceive the identifying information 702 from the user 106 and send theidentifying information 702 to server system 120 to establish anaccount. The server system 120 may receive the identifying information702 and authenticate the identifying information 702 (e.g., confirm thatthere are no existing accounts with the same information, make sure theinformation is legitimate, etc.). Once the server system 120 hasconfirmed that the account may be established, the server system 120 maycreate a new account and store the identifying information 702associated with the account in one or more databases 126. The serversystem 120 may send a notification to the client device 110 that theaccount has been established. The client device 110 may display amessage to the user 106 that the account was established.

The application 114 on the client device 110 may provide a mechanism forthe user 106 to manage various aspects of his account. For example, theclient device 110 may display an interface 715 as shown in FIG. 7B. Theuser 106 may be able to manage filters 717 (e.g., media overlays),manage camera settings for capturing images such as front-facing flash719, and other features, such as, replay 721, special text 723, powersave mode 725, number of best friends 729, etc.

The interface 715 may further allow the user 106 to create a newpersonal media collection 727. The user 106 may select an option tocreate a new personal media collection (e.g., press or swipe menu item727). The client device 110 may detect that the user 106 has selected tocreate a new personal media collection and request or allow a user 106to enter various parameters associated with the media collection.

One parameter may be a name for the personal media collection. Forexample, the client device 110 may display an interface such asinterface 730 as shown in FIG. 7C, to request a name for the mediacollection 732.

The user 106 may be able to enter additional parameters for the mediacollection, as shown in FIG. 7D. For example, the client device 110 maydisplay an interface such as interface 740 to request additionalparameters from the user 106 and allow the user 106 to enter theadditional information associated with the example media collection 742titled “Anchor Splash 2K15.” An additional parameter may includechoosing a thumbnail 744 to associate with the media collection (e.g., acustom thumbnail created by the user 106, or a default composite ofimages in the media collection, etc.).

Another parameter may include setting a boundary or geofence to indicatethe area in which users must be located to submit content messages for amedia collection or where users must be located to view a mediacollection. The application 114 may include a predetermined maximumgeofence or boundary size. If the user 106 would like to increase themaximum boundary size, the user 106 may need to pay an additional fee todo so, as shown in interface 750 in FIG. 7E. In one example embodiment,the user 106 may set the geofence and expand or decrease the size of thegeofence radius via an interface such as the one shown in the interface760 in FIGS. 7F, 7G, and 7H. For example, the user 106 may resize thearea 762 from smaller (e.g., 7F) to larger (e.g., 7G, 7H) and viceversa.

Returning to FIG. 7D, another parameter may be the length of the life ofthe media collection (e.g., the duration of the event, 6 hours, 24hours, 1 day, 1 week, etc.). There may be an option presented to theuser 106 to increase the length 748 of the life of the media collectionfrom a predetermined amount of time (e.g., 6 hours, duration of theevent, etc.). In one example embodiment, the user 106 may need to pay anadditional fee if he wishes to increase the length of the story to alength longer than the predetermined amount of time.

The user 106 may also be able to specify one or more audience membersfor the media collection. An audience member may be a user 106 who haspermission to view the media collection. The user 106 may also be ableto specify a max audience size 749 for which to share the mediacollection. In one example embodiment, there may be a predeterminedmaximum size, and the user 106 may need to pay an additional fee toincrease the audience size to greater than the predetermined maximumsize. The audience may be either a user 106 located in a geofenceassociated with the media collection, or a user 106 in the public whofollows the media collection. For example, the user 106 may specifywhether the media collection is public or private. If the user 106specifies that the media collection is public, then anyone may view themedia collection. If the user 106 specified that the media collection isprivate, then the audience is limited to a group or to users 106 withina specific geofence.

The user 106 may also be able to specify one or more contributors. Acontributor may be a user 106 who has permission to post or submitcontent items or content messages to be included in the mediacollection. In one example embodiment, a contributor may need to bewithin the geofence associate with the media collection to post orsubmit content items or content messages to be included in the mediacollection. For example, a user 106 may only be given an option to sendcontent messages to be included in the media collection if the user 106is within the geofence for the media collection.

Once the user 106 enters the parameters of the media collection, he maysubmit the information to activate the media collection (e.g., via“Activate Media Collection” button 741) or may save the information(e.g., via “Save” button 743).

FIG. 8 is a flowchart illustrating aspects of a method 800, according tosome example embodiments. For illustrative purposes, method 800 isdescribed with respect to networked system 100 of FIG. 1 . It is to beunderstood that method 800 may be practiced with other systemconfigurations in other embodiments.

In operation 802 the client device 110 (e.g., a first computing device)may receive a request from a user 106 to activate a new mediacollection. The request may include one or more parameters, as describedabove. For example, the request may include a name for the mediacollection, a geofence associated with the media collection, one or morecontributors, one or more audience members, a max audience size, athumbnail, a length of the life of the media collection, etc.

In operation 804 the client device 110 may send the request to a servercomputer (e.g., at server system 120) for activation of the new mediacollection. The server computer may receive and evaluate the request andinformation and create a new media collection and store the associatedinformation in one or more databases 126. The server computer maygenerate a message (e.g., confirmation) indicating that a new mediacollection has been created and send it to the client device 110. Theclient device 110 may receive, from the server computer, theconfirmation that the new media collection was activated, as shown inoperation 806.

The server computer may receive a plurality of content messages from aplurality of content sources (e.g., users 106 via client devices 110).The content messages may comprise media content (e.g., images, video,audio, etc.) and may be associated with one or more media collections,as explained above. For each of the plurality of content messagesreceived by the server system 120 (e.g., by content processing server124), the content processing server 124 may associate the content in thecontent message with one or more predetermined media collections, asalso explained above. The content processing server 124 may store thecontent message associated with the one or more media collections,and/or may forward the content message associated to the appropriateclient device 110.

The client device 110 may receive a plurality of content messagesassociated with the new media collection, as shown in operation 808. Theplurality of content messages may be received from a plurality of users106, as explained above. The client device 110 may display the pluralityof content messages to the user 106 and the user 106 may be able toselect one or more of the content messages to be included in the mediacollection. For example, the user 106 may select a subset or all of thecontent messages. In operation 810, the client device 110 may receive,from the user 106, a selection of the plurality of content messages tobe included in the new media collection.

In operation 812, the client device 110 may send, to the servercomputer, and indication of the selection of the content messages to beincluded in the new media collection. The server computer may store theselection for the media collection and cause the selection of contentmessages to be included in the new media collection and displayed inresponse to a request from at least a second client device 110 (e.g., asecond computing device) to view the media collection. For example, anaudience member (e.g., the user 106 or another user 106) may view themedia collection (e.g., the selection of plurality of content messages)on his client device 110. For example, the audience member may be withinthe geofence for the media collection or may enter a unique identifier(e.g., a username) or scan a code (e.g., QR code, barcode, etc.) tofollow/view the media collection. In another example, the servercomputer may cause the new media collection to be displayed in responseto the request from at least a second computing device after the serverdetermines that a second user associated with the second computingdevice is part of a predefined audience.

FIG. 9 is a block diagram 900 illustrating architecture of software 902,which can be installed on any one or more of the devices describedabove. For example, in various embodiments, client device(s) 110,operator device(s) 130, server system 120, and web server 122, andcontent processing server 124, may be implemented using some or all ofthe elements of software architecture 902. FIG. 9 is merely anon-limiting example of a software architecture, and it will beappreciated that many other architectures can be implemented tofacilitate the functionality described herein. In various embodiments,the software architecture 902 is implemented by hardware such as machine1000 of FIG. 10 that includes processors 1010, memory 1030, and I/Ocomponents 1050. In this example architecture, the software architecture902 can be conceptualized as a stack of layers where each layer mayprovide a particular functionality. For example, the softwarearchitecture 902 includes layers such as an operating system 904,libraries 906, frameworks 908, and applications 910. Operationally, theapplications 910 invoke application programming interface (API) calls912 through the software stack and receive messages 914 in response tothe API calls 912, consistent with some embodiments.

In various implementations, the operating system 904 manages hardwareresources and provides common services. The operating system 904includes, for example, a kernel 920, services 922, and drivers 924. Thekernel 920 acts as an abstraction layer between the hardware and theother software layers, consistent with some embodiments. For example,the kernel 920 provides memory management, processor management (e.g.,scheduling), component management, networking, and security settings,among other functionality. The services 922 can provide other commonservices for the other software layers. The drivers 924 are responsiblefor controlling or interfacing with the underlying hardware, accordingto some embodiments. For instance, the drivers 924 can include displaydrivers, camera drivers, BLUETOOTH® or BLUETOOTH® Low Energy drivers,flash memory drivers, serial communication drivers (e.g., UniversalSerial Bus (USB) drivers), WI-FI® drivers, audio drivers, powermanagement drivers, and so forth.

In some embodiments, the libraries 906 provide a low-level commoninfrastructure utilized by the applications 910. The libraries 906 caninclude system libraries 930 (e.g., C standard library) that can providefunctions such as memory allocation functions, string manipulationfunctions, mathematic functions, and the like. In addition, thelibraries 906 can include API libraries 932 such as media libraries(e.g., libraries to support presentation and manipulation of variousmedia formats such as Moving Picture Experts Group-4 (MPEG4), AdvancedVideo Coding (H.264 or AVC), Moving Picture Experts Group Layer-3 (MP3),Advanced Audio Coding (AAC), Adaptive Multi-Rate (AMR) audio codec,Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG or JPG), or Portable NetworkGraphics (PNG)), graphics libraries (e.g., an OpenGL framework used torender in two dimensions (2D) and three dimensions (3D) in a graphiccontent on a display), database libraries (e.g., SQLite to providevarious relational database functions), web libraries (e.g., WebKit toprovide web browsing functionality), and the like. The libraries 906 canalso include a wide variety of other libraries 934 to provide many otherAPIs to the applications 910.

The frameworks 908 provide a high-level common infrastructure that canbe utilized by the applications 910, according to some embodiments. Forexample, the frameworks 908 provide various graphic user interface (GUI)functions, high-level resource management, high-level location services,and so forth. The frameworks 908 can provide a broad spectrum of otherAPIs that can be utilized by the applications 910, some of which may bespecific to a particular operating system 904 or platform.

In an example embodiment, the applications 910 include a homeapplication 950, a contacts application 952, a browser application 954,a book reader application 956, a location application 958, a mediaapplication 960, a messaging application 962, a game application 964,and a broad assortment of other applications such as a third partyapplication 966. According to some embodiments, the applications 910 areprograms that execute functions defined in the programs. Variousprogramming languages can be employed to create one or more of theapplications 910, structured in a variety of manners, such asobject-oriented programming languages (e.g., Objective-C, Java, or C++)or procedural programming languages (e.g., C or assembly language). In aspecific example, the third party application 966 (e.g., an application910 developed using the ANDROID™ or IOS™ software development kit (SDK)by an entity other than the vendor of the particular platform) may bemobile software running on a mobile operating system such as IOS™,ANDROID™, WINDOWS® Phone, or another mobile operating system. In thisexample, the third party application 966 can invoke the API calls 912provided by the operating system 904 to facilitate functionalitydescribed herein.

Some embodiments may particularly include a curation application 967. Incertain embodiments, this may be a stand-alone application that operatesto manage communications with a server system such as server system 120.In other embodiments, this functionality may be integrated with anotherapplication such as a media application 960 or another such application.Curation application 967 may manage collection of content using a cameradevice of machine 1000, communication with a server system via I/Ocomponents 1050, and receipt and storage of received media collectionsin memory 1030. Presentation of content and user inputs associated withcontent may be managed by curation application 967 using differentframeworks 908, library 906 elements, or operating system 904 elementsoperating on a machine 1000.

FIG. 10 is a block diagram illustrating components of a machine 1000,according to some embodiments, able to read instructions from amachine-readable medium (e.g., a machine-readable storage medium) andperform any one or more of the methodologies discussed herein.Specifically, FIG. 10 shows a diagrammatic representation of the machine1000 in the example form of a computer system, within which instructions1016 (e.g., software, a program, an application 910, an applet, an app,or other executable code) for causing the machine 1000 to perform anyone or more of the methodologies discussed herein can be executed. Inalternative embodiments, the machine 1000 operates as a standalonedevice or can be coupled (e.g., networked) to other machines. In anetworked deployment, the machine 1000 may operate in the capacity of aserver machine 122, 124 or a client 110, 130 in a server-client networkenvironment, or as a peer machine in a peer-to-peer (or distributed)network environment. The machine 1000 can comprise, but not be limitedto, a server computer, a client computer, a personal computer (PC), atablet computer, a laptop computer, a netbook, a set-top box (STB), apersonal digital assistant (PDA), an entertainment media system, acellular telephone, a smart phone, a mobile device, a wearable device(e.g., a smart watch), a smart home device (e.g., a smart appliance),other smart devices, a web appliance, a network router, a networkswitch, a network bridge, or any machine capable of executing theinstructions 1016, sequentially or otherwise, that specify actions to betaken by the machine 1000. Further, while only a single machine 1000 isillustrated, the term “machine” shall also be taken to include acollection of machines 1000 that individually or jointly execute theinstructions 1016 to perform any one or more of the methodologiesdiscussed herein.

In various embodiments, the machine 1000 comprises processors 1010,memory 1030, and I/O components 1050, which can be configured tocommunicate with each other via a bus 1002. In an example embodiment,the processors 1010 (e.g., a central processing unit (CPU), a reducedinstruction set computing (RISC) processor, a complex instruction setcomputing (CISC) processor, a graphics processing unit (GPU), a digitalsignal processor (DSP), an application specific integrated circuit(ASIC), a radio-frequency integrated circuit (RFIC), another processor,or any suitable combination thereof) include, for example, a processor1012 and a processor 1014 that may execute the instructions 1016. Theterm “processor” is intended to include multi-core processors 1010 thatmay comprise two or more independent processors 1012, 1014 (alsoreferred to as “cores”) that can execute instructions 1016contemporaneously. Although FIG. 10 shows multiple processors 1010, themachine 1000 may include a single processor 1010 with a single core, asingle processor 1010 with multiple cores (e.g., a multi-core processor1010), multiple processors 1012, 1014 with a single core, multipleprocessors 1010, 1012 with multiples cores, or any combination thereof.

The memory 1030 comprises a main memory 1032, a static memory 1034, anda storage unit 1036 accessible to the processors 1010 via the bus 1002,according to some embodiments. The storage unit 1036 can include amachine-readable medium 1038 on which are stored the instructions 1016embodying any one or more of the methodologies or functions describedherein. The instructions 1016 can also reside, completely or at leastpartially, within the main memory 1032, within the static memory 1034,within at least one of the processors 1010 (e.g., within the processor'scache memory), or any suitable combination thereof, during executionthereof by the machine 1000. Accordingly, in various embodiments, themain memory 1032, the static memory 1034, and the processors 1010 areconsidered machine-readable media 1038.

As used herein, the term “memory” refers to a machine-readable medium1038 able to store data temporarily or permanently and may be taken toinclude, but not be limited to, random-access memory (RAM), read-onlymemory (ROM), buffer memory, flash memory, and cache memory. While themachine-readable medium 1038 is shown, in an example embodiment, to be asingle medium, the term “machine-readable medium” should be taken toinclude a single medium or multiple media (e.g., a centralized ordistributed database, or associated caches and servers) able to storethe instructions 1016. The term “machine-readable medium” shall also betaken to include any medium, or combination of multiple media, that iscapable of storing instructions (e.g., instructions 1016) for executionby a machine (e.g., machine 1000), such that the instructions 1016, whenexecuted by one or more processors of the machine 1000 (e.g., processors1010), cause the machine 1000 to perform any one or more of themethodologies described herein. Accordingly, a “machine-readable medium”refers to a single storage apparatus or device, as well as “cloud-based”storage systems or storage networks that include multiple storageapparatus or devices. The term “machine-readable medium” shallaccordingly be taken to include, but not be limited to, one or more datarepositories in the form of a solid-state memory (e.g., flash memory),an optical medium, a magnetic medium, other non-volatile memory (e.g.,erasable programmable read-only memory (EPROM)), or any suitablecombination thereof. The term “machine-readable medium” specificallyexcludes non-statutory signals per se.

The I/O components 1050 include a wide variety of components to receiveinput, provide output, produce output, transmit information, exchangeinformation, capture measurements, and so on. In general, it will beappreciated that the I/O components 1050 can include many othercomponents that are not shown in FIG. 10 . The I/O components 1050 aregrouped according to functionality merely for simplifying the followingdiscussion, and the grouping is in no way limiting. In various exampleembodiments, the I/O components 1050 include output components 1052 andinput components 1054. The output components 1052 include visualcomponents (e.g., a display such as a plasma display panel (PDP), alight emitting diode (LED) display, a liquid crystal display (LCD), aprojector, or a cathode ray tube (CRT)), acoustic components (e.g.,speakers), haptic components (e.g., a vibratory motor), other signalgenerators, and so forth. The input components 1054 include alphanumericinput components (e.g., a keyboard, a touch screen configured to receivealphanumeric input, a photo-optical keyboard, or other alphanumericinput components), point-based input components (e.g., a mouse, atouchpad, a trackball, a joystick, a motion sensor, or other pointinginstruments), tactile input components (e.g., a physical button, a touchscreen that provides location and force of touches or touch gestures, orother tactile input components), audio input components (e.g., amicrophone), and the like.

In some further example embodiments, the I/O components 1050 includebiometric components 1056, motion components 1058, environmentalcomponents 1060, or position components 1062, among a wide array ofother components. For example, the biometric components 1056 includecomponents to detect expressions (e.g., hand expressions, facialexpressions, vocal expressions, body gestures, or eye tracking), measurebiosignals (e.g., blood pressure, heart rate, body temperature,perspiration, or brain waves), identify a person (e.g., voiceidentification, retinal identification, facial identification,fingerprint identification, or electroencephalogram basedidentification), and the like. The motion components 1058 includeacceleration sensor components (e.g., accelerometer), gravitation sensorcomponents, rotation sensor components (e.g., gyroscope), and so forth.The environmental components 1060 include, for example, illuminationsensor components (e.g., photometer), temperature sensor components(e.g., one or more thermometers that detect ambient temperature),humidity sensor components, pressure sensor components (e.g.,barometer), acoustic sensor components (e.g., one or more microphonesthat detect background noise), proximity sensor components (e.g.,infrared sensors that detect nearby objects), gas sensor components(e.g., machine olfaction detection sensors, gas detection sensors todetect concentrations of hazardous gases for safety or to measurepollutants in the atmosphere), or other components that may provideindications, measurements, or signals corresponding to a surroundingphysical environment. The position components 1062 include locationsensor components (e.g., a Global Positioning System (GPS) receivercomponent), altitude sensor components (e.g., altimeters or barometersthat detect air pressure from which altitude may be derived),orientation sensor components (e.g., magnetometers), and the like.

Communication can be implemented using a wide variety of technologies.The I/O components 1050 may include communication components 1064operable to couple the machine 1000 to a network 1080 or devices 1070via a coupling 1082 and a coupling 1072, respectively. For example, thecommunication components 1064 include a network interface component oranother suitable device to interface with the network 1080. In furtherexamples, communication components 1064 include wired communicationcomponents, wireless communication components, cellular communicationcomponents, near field communication (NFC) components, BLUETOOTH®components (e.g., BLUETOOTH® Low Energy), WI-FI® components, and othercommunication components to provide communication via other modalities.The devices 1070 may be another machine 1000 or any of a wide variety ofperipheral devices (e.g., a peripheral device coupled via a UniversalSerial Bus (USB)).

Moreover, in some embodiments, the communication components 1064 detectidentifiers or include components operable to detect identifiers. Forexample, the communication components 1064 include radio frequencyidentification (RFID) tag reader components, NFC smart tag detectioncomponents, optical reader components (e.g., an optical sensor to detecta one-dimensional bar codes such as a Universal Product Code (UPC) barcode, multi-dimensional bar codes such as a Quick Response (QR) code,Aztec Code, Data Matrix, Dataglyph, MaxiCode, PDF417, Ultra Code,Uniform Commercial Code Reduced Space Symbology (UCC RSS)-2D bar codes,and other optical codes), acoustic detection components (e.g.,microphones to identify tagged audio signals), or any suitablecombination thereof. In addition, a variety of information can bederived via the communication components 1064, such as location viaInternet Protocol (IP) geo-location, location via WI-FI® signaltriangulation, location via detecting a BLUETOOTH® or NFC beacon signalthat may indicate a particular location, and so forth.

In various example embodiments, one or more portions of the network 1080can be an ad hoc network, an intranet, an extranet, a virtual privatenetwork (VPN), a local area network (LAN), a wireless LAN (WLAN), a widearea network (WAN), a wireless WAN (WWAN), a metropolitan area network(MAN), the Internet, a portion of the Internet, a portion of the publicswitched telephone network (PSTN), a plain old telephone service (POTS)network, a cellular telephone network, a wireless network, a WI-FI®network, another type of network, or a combination of two or more suchnetworks. For example, the network 1080 or a portion of the network 1080may include a wireless or cellular network, and the coupling 1080 may bea Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) connection, a Global System forMobile communications (GSM) connection, or another type of cellular orwireless coupling. In this example, the coupling 1082 can implement anyof a variety of types of data transfer technology, such as SingleCarrier Radio Transmission Technology (1×RTT), Evolution-Data Optimized(EVDO) technology, General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) technology,Enhanced Data rates for GSM Evolution (EDGE) technology, thirdGeneration Partnership Project (3GPP) including 3G, fourth generationwireless (4G) networks, Universal Mobile Telecommunications System(UMTS), High Speed Packet Access (HSPA), Worldwide Interoperability forMicrowave Access (WiMAX), Long Term Evolution (LTE) standard, othersdefined by various standard-setting organizations, other long rangeprotocols, or other data transfer technology.

In example embodiments, the instructions 1016 are transmitted orreceived over the network 1080 using a transmission medium via a networkinterface device (e.g., a network interface component included in thecommunication components 1064) and utilizing any one of a number ofwell-known transfer protocols (e.g., Hypertext Transfer Protocol(HTTP)). Similarly, in other example embodiments, the instructions 1016are transmitted or received using a transmission medium via the coupling1072 (e.g., a peer-to-peer coupling) to the devices 1070. The term“transmission medium” shall be taken to include any intangible mediumthat is capable of storing, encoding, or carrying the instructions 1016for execution by the machine 1000, and includes digital or analogcommunications signals or other intangible media to facilitatecommunication of such software.

Furthermore, the machine-readable medium 1038 is non-transitory (inother words, not having any transitory signals) in that it does notembody a propagating signal. However, labeling the machine-readablemedium 1038 “non-transitory” should not be construed to mean that themedium is incapable of movement; the medium 1038 should be considered asbeing transportable from one physical location to another. Additionally,since the machine-readable medium 1038 is tangible, the medium 1038 maybe considered to be a machine-readable device.

Throughout this specification, plural instances may implementcomponents, operations, or structures described as a single instance.Although individual operations of one or more methods are illustratedand described as separate operations, one or more of the individualoperations may be performed concurrently, and nothing requires that theoperations be performed in the order illustrated. Structures andfunctionality presented as separate components in example configurationsmay be implemented as a combined structure or component. Similarly,structures and functionality presented as a single component may beimplemented as separate components. These and other variations,modifications, additions, and improvements fall within the scope of thesubject matter herein.

Although an overview of the inventive subject matter has been describedwith reference to specific example embodiments, various modificationsand changes may be made to these embodiments without departing from thebroader scope of embodiments of the present disclosure. Such embodimentsof the inventive subject matter may be referred to herein, individuallyor collectively, by the term “invention” merely for convenience andwithout intending to voluntarily limit the scope of this application toany single disclosure or inventive concept if more than one is, in fact,disclosed.

The embodiments illustrated herein are described in sufficient detail toenable those skilled in the art to practice the teachings disclosed.Other embodiments may be used and derived therefrom, such thatstructural and logical substitutions and changes may be made withoutdeparting from the scope of this disclosure. The Detailed Description,therefore, is not to be taken in a limiting sense, and the scope ofvarious embodiments is defined only by the appended claims, along withthe full range of equivalents to which such claims are entitled.

As used herein, the term “or” may be construed in either an inclusive orexclusive sense. Moreover, plural instances may be provided forresources, operations, or structures described herein as a singleinstance. Additionally, boundaries between various resources,operations, modules, engines, and data stores are somewhat arbitrary,and particular operations are illustrated in a context of specificillustrative configurations. Other allocations of functionality areenvisioned and may fall within a scope of various embodiments of thepresent disclosure. In general, structures and functionality presentedas separate resources in the example configurations may be implementedas a combined structure or resource. Similarly, structures andfunctionality presented as a single resource may be implemented asseparate resources. These and other variations, modifications,additions, and improvements fall within a scope of embodiments of thepresent disclosure as represented by the appended claims. Thespecification and drawings are, accordingly, to be regarded in anillustrative rather than a restrictive sense.

The invention claimed is:
 1. A method comprising: receiving a request toactivate a new media collection, the new media collection to beaccessible only for a default predetermined window of time and tocomprise a geographic boundary size for where media content for the newmedia collection originates; receiving input increasing the defaultpredetermined window of time that the new media collection isaccessible; activating the new media collection for the increasedpredetermined window of time and geographic boundary size for wheremedia content originates; and causing a plurality of content messagescomprising media content originating in the geographical boundary sizeto be included in the new media collection and displayed in response toa request from a computing device to view the new media collection basedon determining the request occurs within the increased predeterminedwindow of time that the new media collection is accessible.
 2. Themethod of claim 1, wherein the new media collection is no longeraccessible after the increased predetermined window of time.
 3. Themethod of claim 1, further comprising: receiving, from one or morecomputing devices, a plurality of content messages originating in thegeographic boundary size and associated with the new media collectionfor selection to include in the new media collection, the contentmessages comprising photos and video; causing display of the pluralityof content messages comprising photos and video for selection to includein the new media collection; receiving a selected a subset of theplurality of content messages displayed, to be included in the new mediacollection; and causing the selected subset of the plurality of contentmessages to be included in the new media collection.
 4. The method ofclaim 3, wherein the selected subset of the plurality of contentmessages to be included in the new media collection includes at leastone content message from the computing device.
 5. The method of claim 1,wherein only users within a geofence associated with the geographicboundary size will be given an option to send content messages to beincluded in the new media collection.
 6. The method of claim 5, whereinthe request to activate a new media collection includes at least onecontributor and wherein the at least one contributor is a user that islocated within the geofence for the new media collection.
 7. The methodof claim 1, wherein the request to activate a new media collectionincludes at least one contributor and wherein the at least onecontributor is a user that has permission to send content messages to beincluded in the new media collection.
 8. The method of claim 1, whereinthe request to activate a new media collection includes at least oneaudience member and wherein the at least one audience member is a userwho has permission to view the new media collection.
 9. The method ofclaim 1, further comprising: receiving a specified max audience to whichthe new media collection may be shared; and wherein the specified maxaudience includes users located within a geofence associated with thenew media collection and users located outside the geofence associatedwith the new media collection.
 10. A device comprising: a memory thatstores instructions; and at least one hardware processor configured bythe instructions to perform operations comprising: receiving a requestto activate a new media collection, the new media collection to beaccessible only for a default predetermined window of time and tocomprise a geographic boundary size for where media content for the newmedia collection originates; receiving input increasing the defaultpredetermined window of time that the new media collection isaccessible; activating the new media collection for the increasedpredetermined window of time and geographic boundary size for wheremedia content originates; and causing a plurality of content messagescomprising media content originating in the geographical boundary sizeto be included in the new media collection and displayed in response toa request from a computing device to view the new media collection basedon determining the request occurs within the increased predeterminedwindow of time that the new media collection is accessible.
 11. Thedevice of claim 10, wherein the new media collection is no longeraccessible after the increased predetermined window of time.
 12. Thedevice of claim 10, the operations further comprising: receiving, fromone or more computing devices, a plurality of content messagesoriginating in the geographic boundary size and associated with the newmedia collection for selection to include in the new media collection,the content messages comprising photos and video; causing display of theplurality of content messages comprising photos and video for selectionto include in the new media collection; receiving a selected a subset ofthe plurality of content messages displayed, to be included in the newmedia collection; and causing the selected subset of the plurality ofcontent messages to be included in the new media collection.
 13. Thedevice of claim 12, wherein the selected subset of the plurality ofcontent messages to be included in the new media collection includes atleast one content message from the computing device.
 14. The device ofclaim 10, wherein only users within a geofence associated with thegeographic boundary size will be given an option to send contentmessages to be included in the new media collection.
 15. The device ofclaim 14, wherein the request to activate a new media collectionincludes at least one contributor and wherein the at least onecontributor is a user that is located within the geofence for the newmedia collection.
 16. The device of claim 10, wherein the request toactivate a new media collection includes at least one contributor andwherein the at least one contributor is a user that has permission tosend content messages to be included in the new media collection. 17.The device of claim 10, wherein the request to activate a new mediacollection includes at least one audience member and wherein the atleast one audience member is a user who has permission to view the newmedia collection.
 18. The device of claim 10, the operations furthercomprising: receiving a specified max audience to which the new mediacollection may be shared; and wherein the specified max audienceincludes users located within a geofence associated with the new mediacollection and users located outside the geofence associated with thenew media collection.
 19. A non-transitory computer readable mediumcomprising instructions stored thereon that are executable by at leastone processor to cause a computing device to perform operationscomprising: receiving a request to activate a new media collection, thenew media collection to be accessible only for a default predeterminedwindow of time and to comprise a geographic boundary size for wheremedia content for the new media collection originates; receiving inputincreasing the default predetermined window of time that the new mediacollection is accessible; activating the new media collection for theincreased predetermined window of time and geographic boundary size forwhere media content originates; and causing a plurality of contentmessages comprising media content originating in the geographicalboundary size to be included in the new media collection and displayedin response to a request from a computing device to view the new mediacollection based on determining the request occurs within the increasedpredetermined window of time that the new media collection isaccessible.
 20. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 19,the operations further comprising: receiving, from one or more computingdevices, a plurality of content messages originating in the geographicboundary size and associated with the new media collection for selectionto include in the new media collection, the content messages comprisingphotos and video; causing display of the plurality of content messagescomprising photos and video for selection to include in the new mediacollection; receiving a selected a subset of the plurality of contentmessages displayed, to be included in the new media collection; andcausing the selected subset of the plurality of content messages to beincluded in the new media collection.